02319cam a2200349 i 4500 21339704 MeVbMML 20240417130313.0 191218s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 2019057808 9781250755933 (hardcover) 9781250755926 (ebook) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc PR6116.A94 E54 2020 823/.92 23 Pavesi, Alex, author. 16625 The eighth detective : a novel / Alex Pavesi. 8th detective First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. 289 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out - calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days. Until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor knocks on his door. Julia wishes to republish his book, and together they must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past, and an editor, keen to understand it. But there are things in the stories that don't add up. Inconsistencies left by Grant that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve. THE EIGHTH DETECTIVE is a cerebral, inventive novel with a modern twist, where nothing is what it seems, and proof that the best mysteries break all the rules"-- Provided by publisher. Suspense fiction. gsafd 6 Online version: Pavesi, Alex, The eighth detective First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. 9781250755926 (DLC) 2019057809 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK 29522 29522 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-04-17 26.99 0 PAVE 66017 2024-04-17 2024-04-17 BOOK 1